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Best Selling Books by Pat McKissack

Pat McKissack is the author of Bugs! (1988), The Royal Kingdoms of Ghana, Mali, and Songhay (1995), Run Away Home (1997), Madam C.J. Walker (2001), Miami Gets it Straight (2000).

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Bugs!

release date: Jan 01, 1988
Bugs!
Simple text and illustrations of a variety of insects introduce the numbers one through five.

The Royal Kingdoms of Ghana, Mali, and Songhay

release date: Oct 15, 1995
The Royal Kingdoms of Ghana, Mali, and Songhay
Examines the civilizations of the Western Sudan which flourished from 700 to 1700 A.D., acquiring such vast wealth that they became centers of trade and culture for a continent.

Run Away Home

release date: Jan 01, 1997
Run Away Home
In 1886 in Alabama, an eleven-year-old African American girl and her family befriend and give refuge to a runaway Apache boy.

Madam C.J. Walker

release date: Jan 01, 2001
Madam C.J. Walker
Profiles the life of Sarah Breedlove, also known as Madam C. J. Walker, the black laundress who founded a cosmetics company and became the first female self-made millionare in the United States.

Miami Gets it Straight

release date: Jan 01, 2000
Miami Gets it Straight
With only five more days of school remaining before summer vacation, nine-year-old Miami still faces several hurdles, such as how to get along with Destinee Tate, his nemesis.

Goin' Someplace Special

release date: Sep 01, 2001
Goin' Someplace Special
In segregated 1950s Nashville, a young African Amrican girl braves a series of indignities and obstacles to get to one of the few integrated places in town: the public library.

Zora Neale Hurston, Writer and Storyteller

release date: Jan 01, 2002
Zora Neale Hurston, Writer and Storyteller
This book provides a basic introduction to the life and writings of Zora Neale Hurston.

Paul Robeson

release date: Jan 01, 2001
Paul Robeson
Examines the life of the twentieth-century African-American singer and actor who spoke out against racism and injustice.

The Civil Rights Movement in America

release date: Jan 01, 1991
The Civil Rights Movement in America
From the beginning of Reconstruction to the present, traces the struggle of blacks to gain their civil rights in America, with a brief comparison of their problems to those of other minorities.

Flossie & the Fox

release date: Jan 01, 1987
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